[ale] File recovery

Jim Kinney jim.kinney at gmail.com
Sun Jan 5 15:35:21 EST 2014


VM were not on backup. Local snapshots were on disk. Supposed to be demo
and testbed stuff but apparently not all was disposable.
On Jan 5, 2014 2:51 PM, "Beddingfield, Allen" <allen at ua.edu> wrote:

>  What type of backups do you have? Whole VM backups or file level? I
> assume they were on a datastore on local disk?
>
>
>  *From*: Jim Kinney [mailto:jim.kinney at gmail.com]
> *Sent*: Sunday, January 05, 2014 01:12 PM Central Standard Time
> *To*: Atlanta User Group (E-mail) <ale at ale.org>
> *Subject*: [ale] File recovery
>
>
> Haven't had to do this in a while so I'm looking for ideas.
>
> VMware ESX host rebooted. The bios was set to pxeboot. The pxeboot process
> it picked up installed Fedora19 over the ESX.
>
> sigh
>
> Looking for recommendations for tool chains for VM recovery. I'm not
> expecting much success but trying to balance reconstruct time vs recovery
> time.
>
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